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Sergey Dereliev

Monotypic goose species breeding in the arctic tundras of Eastern Greenland, Iceland and also Svalbard, and wintering mainly in Great Britain, and from Denmark to Belgium. Considered a vagrant further south and east. The Greenland/Iceland population has almost doubled during the last two decades, and increased tenfold since 1960.

Season of assessment

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Population trendIncreasing
Population size
(min-max, best estimate)
370000-377000,373000
Red List categoryLC
Franks, S., Fiedler, W., Arizaga, J., Jiguet, F., Nikolov, B., van der Jeugd, Ambrosini, R, Aizpurua, O., Bairlein, F., Clark, J., Fattorini, N, Hammond, M., Higgins, D, Levering, H., Skellorn, W., Spina, F, Thorup, K. Walker, J., Woodward, I. and Baillie, S.R. (1) (2022) Online Atlas of the movements of European bird populations. https://migrationatlas.org EURING/CMS (1) Principal investigator
N records N individuals N recoveries
Mapped data*
Total available data
*Mapped data include only distant (>= 50 km) recoveries